On this day: December 27

Charles Darwin embarks on the HMS Beagle, "Howdy Doody" makes its TV debut, Apollo 8 splashes down after orbiting the Moon, and the Soviet Union occupies Afghanistan, all on this day.

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1988: Rock singer Hayley Williams, the lead singer of the pop-punk band Paramore, is born in Meridian, Mississippi.

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